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Wednesday, 7 September 2011

#TheGallery: Shoes

I've missed a few of Tara's prompts whilst away on holiday so I'm looking forward to having a crack at this one! She wants us to take a look at shoes and show them in our photographs this week. So here are my contributions:

These boots are made for walking!

These are the boots of my family after a summer hike on the shores of Windermere. From bottom to top (clockwise) myself, my son, my mum, my daughter and my dad. I have to say that my kids boots are lot more fun and colourful than our boring adult ones! My boots must be well over 15 years old and I do wonder where I have walked wearing them... As a child I was taken on family hiking holidays staying in Youth Hostels and aged 7 walked up Ben Nevis. We are trying to get my children into hiking now that we live in such a fabulous part of the country for the great outdoors.

Big girl shoes

As my daughter is approaching her 8th birthday I thought it was high time she learnt how to do laces! So this holiday when I got her new trainers I made sure that they had laces on them. It only took a day for her to get it and this is her proudly showing off her first successful self lacing. I'm sure as a child that we learnt to do laces a lot sooner as we didn't have all the velcro fastenings modern children have? Any way I'm proud of her quickly mastering this important life skill and hope she can now do up her own hiking boots!

Please pop over to Tara's site to see all the other fabulous entries in this week's gallery.

You live in my favourite place in the UK for walking! Oh how fortunate you are and fabulous to be a walking family too :) I walked heaps growing up - in Wales, the Peaks, the Lakes, Devon... happy memories indeed. Walking taught me so much as a child about persevering, pacing myself, looking out for others and encouraging them, looking inside for extra reserve and strength when I felt like giving up... it's a whole new ball game now I'm a parent and doing all the encouraging :) Won't be too long before the young'uns are racing ahead to the top of the mountain leaving us old folk for dust though! x